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About Maria Helena

Hello. My name is Maria Helena. I am a bank retired woman 70 Years old, married with a bank retired man too. We worked in Lisbon all the time. Had our children there. They have grown up and both are married now. We have 4 grandchildren. We like Lisbon but now we prefer the Algarve to live. No stress of the cities. Good sea to visit and to dive. People that think about holidays not about work. So we live now in Alvor – Algarve – Portugal. In the meanwhile we rent our properties. We are very careful with its quality and we love to hear that our clients, had a great holiday. In our accommodation. We are waiting for you too. Lena and Gil

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Wonderful!4.8/5 -

(28 traveller reviews)

Great for our family holiday

We had a happy relaxing week's holiday in early October. The weather was perfect, not a cloud in the sky and the sea was still warm. There is a five minute walk into town which was ideal as we ate out every night and although we had a car we only used it to go to the beach. The house and area was so relaxing that all our plans to visit

the historic and cultural venues in the Algarve were put on hold for future trips.

Lovely villa, lovely location

We have just returned from our first stay in Lena's villa, and we had a lovely time. There were 9 of us including 3 small grandchildren and there was everything we needed. The villa was lovely and clean, as was the pool and gardens. Lena greeted us on our arrival, and was very friendly and very welcoming. We would happily recommend this villa to anybody, also the location was very good, 5 minutes from the main centre of Alvor's shops and bars. Sean and Julie (Hertford)

A wonderful place to be...

What a fantastic place to spend 10 glorious days, this is our 2nd stay at this fabulous Villa and hopefully not our last, a holiday with a touch of class in my opinion, fantastic roomy house with amazing rooms and finishing touch's, a superb pool and sun lounging area, and as a great lover of food and cooking I used the outdoor dining area to its full potential, including the built in BBQ. Of course there is a few small niggles like ,a cooker ring not working, a broken plastic shelf in the fridge which had previously been sellotaped, I only discover this when I put a bootle on the shelf and the whole lot fell to the floor. other issues where a toilet seat which was loose and a wire hanging from a bedroom ceiling " not within reach may I add" , the pool lights not working was my biggest disappointment but who cares :) its still a 5 star villa in my opinion and I would go back in a heart beat, And as a previous review mentioned there is a certain amount of Ants but I guarantee they wont bother you one little bit, Marie Helena and Gill are a lovely couple and went out of their way to help, clean towels provided mid-week and a lovely fruit salad brought to us from Marie Helena, a lovely gesture. There was also , bread, water and other condiments left for us when we arrived but to be honest if I wanted to be provided with food I would have went to an all inclusive hotel. Loved it and so did all my family, in fact my Daughters friend who was with us has persuaded her Parents to take her next year, enough said...Oh apart from the stunning town of Alvor, the beautiful golden sandy beaches and caves, the fantastic bars, taverns and restaurants, the wonderful friendly locals, the stunning harbour with its old traditional fishermen doing their thing, I could go on and on all night lol, and all this wonderful stuff a stones throw from this marvellous Villa...

Perfect Family Holiday

We are a family of 7, 5 adults and 2 children aged 9 and 6. We booked last July through email with Lena and over the months always received a reply the same day and a mobile number if we wanted to speak to her. Lena lives over the road from the Villa so was there to meet and greet us and made us feel very welcome. The Villa was clean, spacious and tastefully decorated throughout. One of our reasons for booking the Villa was the location to Alvor town and not needing to hire a car. The boys loved the pool which was spotless and was checked at least twice whilst we were. The large supermarket is only a 3 minute walk where you can buy fresh meat, vegetables, fruit etc. One facility not mentioned which I think should be is that the Villa has wi fi. My nephew was delighted when he found out about this! Thank you again to Lena and Gil we all enjoyed our time in Alvor and your lovely Villa.

We would not return

We chose this Villa based on the location and the luxurious look of it. The location is fabulous, only a 5 minute stroll to be beautiful town of Alvor. The villa itself has a few points I feel I should mention.

Firstly the master bedroom en suite is very dated (70's style) with a bath and hand held shower attachment, not great if you want to stand up and have a shower as you quite often want to in 30degree heat! The bathroom downstairs also had the same. There were just 2 x stand up showers in the house.

The villa is in need of all bathrooms being modernised.

There is a complete lack of glasses considering the villa should sleep 10. There were only 4 x plastic beakers in the whole house. I find this strange as villas attract families and dine/drink outside. This would have been very handy to have a lot more plastic beakers and glasses. We had an ant issue, they were everywhere, kitchen, bathrooms, dishwasher, cupboards. The owner did give us some power but again not ideal with young children.

There was not a scrap of anything in the villa on arrival. No washing up liquid, dishcloth, dishwasher tablets, antibacterial spray, bleach, salt, pepper, a tea bag, coffee nothing!!!!! We arrived as the cleaner was finishing and noticed bags full of leftovers - I'm sure here shopping bills are minimal! It would have been nice to have a these items to help up keep the villa clean. It would also have been nice to have a welcome pack, bottle of water, bread, milk , some coffee, tea etc. This is not a cheap Villa and we got the impression, the owner was no longer willing to put effort into the niceties.

There were no pool towels and the sunbeds were close to falling apart.

There was no welcome book or folder, to advise of usual information, drs, chemist, emergency numbers etc.

We met the previous guests who informed us they left us their inflatables, they had also been taken!!

5 out of 9 of our party became ill at various points during the holiday, this left us questioning the general cleanliness of the villa.

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The rates above includes cleaning once a week , linen and towels changed twice a week.Possibility of extra cleaning by an extra amount of 7 euros per hour.
The rates includes as well AC in all bedrooms and lounge

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